ABOUT THIS BOOK

Robert Louis Jackson has long been recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the foremost Dostoevsky scholars in the world. Freedom and Responsibility in Russian Literature collects twenty essays by distinguished scholars (many former students of Jackson's) and admiring colleagues on some of the foremost questions in Russian studies. Whatever the specific topic, these essays manifest a determination to exercise the critical independence and integrity exemplified by Jackson throughout his long career.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Elizabeth Cheresh Allen is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College.

Gary Saul Morson is Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures at Northwestern University.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface: In Praise of a Friend
Victor Erlich

Introduction: Necessary Boldness
Elizabeth Cheresh Allen and Gary Saul Morson

On Old and New Russian Literature in the Seventeenth Century
Harvey Goldblatt and Riccardo Picchio

Freedom through Suffering: Vasilii Zhukovskii and His Ahasuerus
Victor Terras

"The Feasts of Ill Intention": Baratynskii and the Critics
Susanne Fusso and Howard Stern

Love, Attachment, and the "Objects of Our Regard":
Ivan Turgenev's "The Meeting" and Aleksandra Markelova's "In the Work Corner"
Jane T. Costlow

Turgenev's Last Will and Testament: Poems in Prose
Elizabeth Cheresh Allen

The Gambler: A Study in Ethnopsychology
Joseph Frank

Dostoevsky's "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man": Unsealing the Generic Envelope
Robin Feuer Miller

The Reader's Responsibility in The Brothers Karamazov: Ophelia, Chermashnia, and the Palpable Obscure
Susan Amert

Self-Laceration and Resentment: The Terms of Moral Psychology in Dostoevsky and Nietzsche
Edith W. Clowes

Anna Karenina's Omens
Gary Saul Morson

Tolstoy's Prince Who Resembles a Cucumber
Robert Belknap

The Responsibilities of (Co-) Authorship: Notes on Revising the Serialized Version of Anna Karenina
William Mills Todd III

Solov'ev's Doctrine of Original Sin
Richard F. Gustafson

Chekhov as a Representative of "Real Art"
Tomas Venclova

Truth and Illustration in Gorky: The Lower Depths and After
Victor Erlich

Pasternak's My Sister—Life: The Faustian Connection
Nils Åke Nilsson

Iurii Zhivago's Readers: Literary Reception in Pasternak's Novel and in HIs Time
Carol J. Avins

The Open Forms of Tsvetaeva's Verse
Edward Stankiewicz

A Note on Nabokov's Anti-Darwinism; or Why Apes Feed on Butterflies in The Gift
Vladimir E. Alexandrov

Word and Image in Dostoevsky's Worlds: Robert Louis Jackson on Readings That Bakhtin Could Not Do
Caryl Emerson

Notes
Contributors

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